Talk:Cornell Computing and Information Science

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by RoySmith (talk) 01:14, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science has been described as "a college without students"? Source: fn 2 in article
- ALT1: ... that 43 percent of the students majoring at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science are women, an unusually high percentage in the United States? Source: fn 8 in article
- ALT2: ... that the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science encourages double majors, helping to increase the number of female computer science majors? Source: fn 10 in article
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gastria

Created by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 01:15, 18 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:48, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Wasted Time R: Most of the sources in the article are to internal Cornell publications or web sites. I've added a couple of templates to the article about this. Overall, I'd say it also reads in a rather promotional tone, so WP:NPOV is also a problem. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:58, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing wrong with the sources. Not seeing the claimed overuse of primary sources. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:07, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think to some degree, primary sources will always appear in articles like these, as a school's website is the best source for degree programs offered, exact names of academic departments, etc. But I am working on trying to add outside sources and address the concerns raised, will post again when done. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:37, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Such sources are authoritative, and should be used. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:28, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@RoySmith: I have now expanded several aspects of the article, and in doing so I have brought in several third-party sources (most of which are Ithaca-area newspapers). I have also adjusted the tone in several places to make it seem less promotional (but I have left in the US News & World Reports rankings, which many WP articles on colleges include). So I leave it up to you as to whether you will remove the tags you put on; if you think they still belong there, I will withdraw the DYK nomination. Wasted Time R (talk) 00:53, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Wasted Time R: I appreciate the effort, but it still seems pretty heavy on sources closely associated with the school. For example, the ithaca.com article (Move Over Baseball, The Future of Cornell is CIS) you added is not just a local publication, but the author is apparently a Cornell student ("Julia Nagel is a reporter from The Cornell Daily Sun working on The Sun’s summer fellowship at The Ithaca Times"). -- RoySmith (talk) 16:10, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I tried. Consider the nomination withdrawn. Wasted Time R (talk) 19:52, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]